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We are excited to present our first ever national exclusive deal from Crocs. You get 30% off any the entire purchases at any crocs store across the country (about 200 crocs locations in all).

You can see more about this deal on the web, on our iPhone app or our android app or on our local twitter feeds.

This offer is valid until Sunday night, so go pick up some crocs! 🙂

PS: Greg’s post on this topic can be seen here.

Super excited to announce the launch of The Dealmap Android application. Just like our iPhone application, this app is also built on the same set of APIs that we offer to our developer community. Please stay tuned for more stuff to come from us on the mobile front.

Here is a nice post from Venture Beat this morning on the launch:

Center’d is launching its Dealmap Android app today that will let users filter out the chaff and find the best deals nearby.

The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company says it can aggregate daily deals from almost 100 sources and put them all in one place. Center’d previously launched an iPhone app that has been downloaded more than 175,000 times in its first six weeks. The app sorts through more than 350,000 local deals and coupons and makes them available to consumers where they want them on web sites, social apps, daily emails and mobile apps. More than 375,000 people get these updates daily. It can filter 10 business categories and eight deal types.

Sifting through the chaff is a big part of daily life. If your mobile phone can help you do that, it will become an even more indispensable part of your life. If the Dealmap can help, then it may be a good tool for the discovery of what’s around you. Consumers and businesses can upload their own deals, so the company takes advantage of user-generated content. This app can aggregate daily deals from companies such as Groupon and Living Social. It then organizes the deals and maps them, using relevance algorithms.

Center’d has raised $10 million from Norwest Venture Partners and KeyNote Ventures. Angel investors include Bill Harris, former PayPal and Intuit chief executive. Competitors include 8coupons and Yipit, neither of which have a mobile app yet. Center’d was founded in 2007 and the Dealmap web site launched in May. The company has eight employees.

The Dealmap: New Home Page Design & More Cities Added to Daily Deals Emails: “We’ve been hard at work over here at The Dealmap HQ and just unveiled a new home page redesign. After listening to customer feedback since we launched, we made the following enhancements to …”

The Dealmap iPhone App is now officially in the top 25 Free Apps category in the Apple App Store (as of this morning).

1000s of downloads and 4.5 stars.

Thanks for all the love!

You can get it here form the Apple App Store. Would love to hear your feedback!

It was all over the news yesterday about how Starbucks Free WIFI is going to change the way we connect to Internet, so I got curious and generated a “Starbucks Free WIFI Heatmap” based on all Starbucks stores in the United States. The resulting map is seriously stunning, take a look at the image below:

There is a live version running on my machine (will try to upload to my site later for you to play) and I can see how this is gonna make some cities go “WiMax” without actually having “WiMax” 🙂

We have been busy at The Dealmap HQ working on more ways to get you the local deals in ways that’s convenient for you. As part of this push we are launching local deal feeds for top cities and The Dealmap widgets .

Local Deal RSS Feeds

To get a feed for your city, simply go to our local deals directory and pick your city. Then select the type of feed you need (Restaurants vs. Daily Deals) – then simply add “/rss” at the end and add that url in your favorite feed reader!

For example to get all daily deals in San Jose, you would subscribe to: http://www.thedealmap.com/cities/san-jose-ca/daily-deals/rss

Similarly, to get all restaurant deals in Seattle, you would subscribe to: http://www.thedealmap.com/cities/seattle-wa/restaurant-deals/rss

Local Deal Widgets

You can also get local deals in widgets for your site with a single line of simple HTML code. Simply visit The Dealmap Widget maker page and pick a theme/design/size that suites your blog! We have pre-selected some standard IAB sizes so that its easier for you to integrate into your blog/site. Below is a sample widget and the code required to install it:

It’s that simple!

We are working on more ways to get your favorite deals – so stay tuned. And of course, these widgets are built on top of our own Dealmap APIs – so you can build a custom widget yourself if you are a tinkerer!

Center’d app is now live on Apple App Store! Using our iPhone application you can now find the right place for your needs – our unique semantic analysis on online reviews and ratings from our content partners make it so easy to understand specific features associated sentiments for any given place. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think: http://www.centerd.com/content/iphoneapp.aspx

Here is the full press release below and you can also read nice summary of our product on TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/18/centerd-brings-its-local-discovery-engine-to-the-iphone/

 

Center’d App for iPhone and iPod Touch Enables Flavored Local Discovery

Search and City Guides Help Users Find Places Based on Interest Categories Including Kid-Friendly, Romantic, and More — Consumer Sentiment Charts and Interest Category Drill-Downs Offer Unique Summary of Places

Our unique approach to local search and discovery is well-suited for location-aware devices and is a natural fit for the iPhone

Menlo Park, CA (PRWEB) August 18, 2009 — Center’d, the web site that helps people plan life’s activities, today announced its Center’d App is available on the App Store. TheCenter’d App classifies more than 1 million places so iPhone and iPod touch users can search any U.S. city and then filter results based on their interest, distance or popularity, or they can browse city guides to see the best things to do in top cities by picking an interest style or activity in categories that include kid-friendly, romantic, cheap, outdoor and more.

 

Center’d iPhone App

“Our unique approach to local search and discovery is well-suited for location-aware devices and is a natural fit for the iPhone,” said Jennifer Dulski, co-founder and chief executive officer of Center’d. “We’re excited to extend our technology to mobile applications and help people more quickly find nearby things to do that meet their needs.”

Flavored Local Technology Enables Unique iPhone Features:
By analyzing millions of conversations on the web using natural language processing (NLP) based technologies, Center’d is able to surface detailed insights about local businesses. This data gives people a quick way to determine the tone of Web conversations about a place, and when coupled with other key features helps people quickly find the right place for their needs.

Features of the Center’d App include:

– Search and Browse: People can search for places in any U.S. city and filter results by popularity, distance, or interest styles, and browse things to do with more than 20 city guides, choosing from 7 different interest styles and 5 activity categories.

– Aggregated and Summarized Place Data: Place profile pages feature content that gives users a quick snapshot of a place without having to read dozens of reviews on a mobile device. Sentiment charts capture whether people make positive, neutral, or negative comments about a place across ambiance, service and price categories, and include “snippets” of the most frequently mentioned comments within a category. Place profiles also include interest icons that allow people to drill-down on each style category to see snippets from relevant web conversations and understand why places qualify within a given interest, such as romantic.

– Detailed Maps: The app allows users to view multiple places from search and browse results on detailed interactive maps. They can pan and zoom maps to help find the right place, and view individual places on a map to pinpoint where they are located without leaving the app.

– Easy Content Submission: Users can quickly submit content and information about places, including photos through an embedded tool, short keywords that describe a place, and interest information about a place to help classify it.

– Planning and Sharing Tools: Users can also make plans for themselves or with others by saving places and combining them on a list which they can then easily share with friends.

The Center’d iPhone application is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/.

Local Content Available for Publishers:
In conjunction with the launch of its app, Center’d has developed a new program that enables publishers to add local content and monetization tools to their site for free. By using the Center’d widget, publishers can provide their audiences with unique intent-based local content, and by participating in its paid partnership program, make money by using the widget. Publishers can customize the design and content they would like to display in the widget to suit their site. More information can be found athttp://www.centerd.com/t/widgets.

About Center’d
Center’d (http://www.centerd.com) helps people plan life’s activities. The company has developed personal planning features and group collaboration tools that help people plan any type of activity, from finding and discovering things to do, to organizing and coordinating complex events. By analyzing millions of conversations about places on the web, Center’d has created a unique index of more than 1 million places that are classified by interest styles, including kid-friendly, romantic, cheap, and more. This novel approach enables Center’d to deliver a more relevant and personalized local experience.

Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Center’d is led by former Microsoft and Yahoo! executives, and is funded by Norwest Venture Partners and KeyNote Ventures.